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How To End A Comic
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— 13 Dec 2005 Tom 1 comment

The comic with the worst ending of all time is THE MEAN TEAM, which ran in 2000AD in the 1980s.

This story started as a future gladiator sports story and was alright if you squinted. The Mean Team were the fiercest fighters in a killer capture-the-f[…]

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We Didn’t Start The Fire
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— 13 Dec 2005 Pete Baran Comment

And indeed it appears no-one started the Hemel Hempstead fire currently burning up all the oxygen in the world. Not only has the disaster/pretty sunset maker thrown up massive cultural differences in the use of the word casualties (see this ILE threa[…]

some notes on endings
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— 13 Dec 2005 mark sinker Comment

I’d never thought much about this before — but endings of adult lit aren’t as difft from endings of kids’ books as you’d perhaps expect. But perhaps this is unsurprising: one of the basic social facts about adult lit is […]

the mystery of the unicorn’s horn
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— 13 Dec 2005 Elisha Sessions Comment

the mystery of the unicorn’s horn has just begun apparently. well, narwhal, actually. just read it![…]

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